Announced on Saturday night to a capacity crowd in the Fringe Club at the North Melbourne Town Hall, the Melbourne Fringe Festival Awards celebrate the diversity, professionalism and exceptional quality of work in this year's Festival.

After 30 remarkable years as Fremantle's premier theatre company and producing over 100 works for local, national and international audiences, the multi-award winning Deckchair Theatre is bringing down the curtain for the last time.

Black Swan State Theatre Company's new community engagement initiative is WA Stories, a project that works to bring local stories to life to showcase regional communities. The Town of Carnarvon has been chosen as the inaugural WA town for this exciting pilot project. Writer Francis Italiano will work with the Carnarvon community to research and develop local stories.

Letter's End, the Helpmann Award® nominated production by the visual theatre playwright/performer Wolfe Bowart, has been selected to be part of the 2013 edition of the London International Mime Festival.

With a career in film, television, radio and theatre spanning seven decades and a passion for assisting performers in need, Ron Haddrick's name came up time and time again when Australian performers were asked to nominate and select the winner of the 2012 Equity Lifetime Achievement Award.